CHAPTER 1. EXPLORATION & APOLLO 11: THE SENTENCE

• Definition
• Eight Parts of Speech
• Subjects and Predicates

CHAPTER 2. ART & INVENTION: NOUNS, PRONOUNS, & PREPOSITIONS

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Luncheon of the Boating Party
• Nouns Defined

Lombard Street
• Plural Nouns

Mount Rushmore
• Plural Compound Nouns

Norman Rockwell, Bottom of the Sixth
• Plural Abbreviations, Acronyms, Numbers, Expressions, and Letters

LeRoy Neiman, Tavern on the Green
• Possessives

Bell's Telephone
• Personal Pronouns and Prepositions

Rodin, The Thinker
• Relative, Demonstrative, Indefinite, and Interrogative Pronouns

Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa
• Intensive and Reflexive Pronouns

Shakespeare and Galileo
• Pronouns After "Than" and "As"


CHAPTER 3. FOOD: ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS

Cupcakes
• Adjectives Defined

Chocolate Birthday Cake
• Up Close: A or An?

Pizza
• Comparative Adjectives

Forgotten Cookies
• Compound Adjectives

Bagels
• Adverbs Defined

Potato Chips
• Up Close: Really and Surely


CHAPTER 4. SPORTS: VERBS

Skating
• Action and Linking Verbs

Baseball
• Helping Verbs

Basketball
• Agreement

Soccer
• Timing

Cycling
• Here and There

Tennis
• Was or Were?

Golf
• Split Infinitives


CHAPTER 5. CLASSIC MOVIES & TV: CAPITALIZATION

Titles • Directions • Mom, Dad, etc. • Professional Titles • School Subjects • Other Works • Adjectives Derived from Proper Nouns • Seasons • Pronouns and First Letters • Salutations/Closings • Variety Hour

 
CHAPTER 6. POETRY & PUNCTUATION: THE STATUE OF LIBERTY & THE EIFFEL TOWER

Periods, question marks, exclamation points, ellipses, quotation marks, brackets, colons, commas, parentheses, semicolons, and dashes

CHAPTER 7. TRAVEL TO HAWAII: SPECIAL WORDS

All/All of • All Ready/Already • All Together/Altogether • Angry With/At • Bring/Take • Complement/Compliment • Can/Can't Hardly • Could/Couldn't Care Less •  Different From/Than • Every Day/Everyday • Farther/Further • Fewer/Less • Imply/Infer • Lie/Lay Like/As • "Of" With "A Couple," "Of" With Dates • Principal/Principle • Stationary, Stationery • Than/Then • Wait On/For